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Published on: December 16, 2022
Active and passive soil organic carbon pools as affected by different land use types in Mizoram, Northeast India
Uttam Kumar Sahoo1, Soibam Lanabir Singh1,2, Anudip Gogoi1
1Department of Forestry, School of Earth Sciences & Natural Resource Management, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India.
Abstract:
Soil organic carbon plays an important role in the stability and fertility of soil and is influenced by different management practice. We quantified active and passive carbon pools from total soil organic carbon (TOC) in seven different land use systems of northeast India. TOC was highest (2.75%) in natural forest and lowest in grassland (1.31%) and it decreased with increasing depth in different pools of lability. Very Labile Carbon (VLC) fraction ranged from 36.11 to 42.74% of TOC across different land use system. Active carbon (AC) pool was highest in Wet Rice Cultivation (61.64%) and lowest (58.71%) in natural forest. Higher AC pools (VLC and less labile) in most land use systems barring natural forests suggest that the land use systems in the region are vulnerable to land use change and must adopt suitable management practice to harness carbon sequestration.
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